At its worst, cinema verite is aimless pretense masquerading as artistic intent. At its best, it is Detropia, a documentary that adds soul to statistics, going inside the implosion of a once proud city using a sprawling, haunting approach. That isn’t to say that directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady don’t infuse the proper factual context for their mournful postmortem. Neither transcendent nor particularly...

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While he was The Governator, didn’t you sometimes look at Arnold Schwarzenegger and think, “Man, I wish you’d take your shirt off and hoist a giant sword above your blossoming grandpa man teats!” No? Just me? Well then I’m in luck, as Arnie is going to star in The Legend of Conan. The ten of you who saw it may be thinking, “Didn’t they just reboot Conan like a year ago?” They did. But don’t worry, this new...

Reconciling the public’s fascination with Emma Watson’s blossoming sexuality with realizing the first time she was on-screen she was 11 years old is really difficult. Doing so in a movie where her character’s sexuality is fundamentally warped because of an experience at 11 years old feels like a pretty clear indictment of said fascination. So if we could take a second from obsessing over the emerging womanhood of...